> In my mind, "moving a conversation to sage-flame" is a constructive, > if imperfect way to handle conversations that are going off the deep > end. It's a way that we can flag a conversation as being > inappropriate for the tone of sage-devel without pointing fingers. If > somebody doesn't want to continue, they can just stop participating at > that point. Badgering such a person, either through repeated posts to > sage-flame or through personal email, would be inappropriate. > > Yeah, I don't think anyone is suggesting, "If you want to insult someone, go to sage-flame", but rather, "If two people are insulting each other, do it on sage-flame". I avoid sage-flame precisely because I have zero interest in what goes on there, but others flock like a moth to ... Anyway, perhaps this is at least part of a solution, and Viviane's point is very good as well. Tricky part is making sure any possible insulter doesn't become insultee, or doesn't feel that to be the case. And here having "community standards" and such is reasonable.
Here is another idea that might be better and is related to Tom's comments; maybe a suggestion (again, not a voted rule) that if Y makes a comment about X a couple times, if a few people try to point out that some people might find it offensive, and if X responds without flaming in a way that makes it clear "agree to disagree", OR just doesn't respond, then Y is best served by giving up, even if Y thinks Y is in the right. If X starts flaming, or responding ad nauseam, on the other hand, then the suggestion for sage-flame is in order. That is a long way of saying that it would be nice to have no mean no when it comes to perception of personal attacks. I agree that this community, made of people who really like intricate and comprehensive lines of reasoning (professional hazard), probably will find that unsatisfying. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
